Welcome to a clearing house of pertinent CAISO system data from CalCCA.

The homepage has high-level information, and the tabs at the top allow for deeper dives.

The dashboard is in an early beta stage of testing, so if there is anything I can add to make this tool more useful for you, please reach out to me with any feedback (Ben@cal-cca.org)

Updated: Thursday; June 4,2020

CAISO Information

Note: With all interactive plots, to remove a timeseries click on the name of the variable.

Price Explorer ($/MW)

Note: These are day-ahead prices. Real-time prices and DLAP prices can be found on the CAISO page.

Demand Explorer (MW)

Note: Some days generation data are delayed by a day in reporting TAC-level information.

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COVID Impacts

Current Impacts

To create these figures, we take hourly data from the last five years and create a counterfactual of demand prior to the COVID-19 outbreak using weather, seasonal, and daily normalizations. The method uses a machine learning technique designed for prediction. With the prediction, we take actual demand minus the prediction to create a percent change since the COVID-19 outbreak. The result is plotted through time to visualize the dynamic impact resulting from COVID-19/shelter-in-place.



Post-COVID Effects in CAISO



TAC-Level Effects

More analysis and method are on the COVID-19 Impacts page.

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A product of CalCCA - 2020 - not for commercial purposes.